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Steering Committee

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Dean, Herbert Wertheim College of Engineering, University of Florida

Founder, Caspia Technologies

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Saeed Amidi

Founder & CEO, Plug and Play

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Nariman Farvardin

President, Stevens Institute of Technology

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Kamal Sarabandi

Member, National Academy of Engineering

University of Michigan

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Organizing Committee

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Program Chair

Mark Tehranipoor

University of Florida

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Program Vice-Chair

Nazanin Rahnavard

University of Central Florida

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Program Vice-Chair & Sponsor Co-Chair

Shaahin Angizi

New Jersey Institute of Technology

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Awards Committee Chair

Reza Abdolvand

University of Central Florida

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Communication Chair & Sponsor Co-Chair

Soheil Salehi

University of Arizona

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Finance Co-Chair

Farzane Zokaee

Samsung

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Finance Co-Chair

Reza Esmaeeli

University of Florida

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Senior Strategic Advisor

Jian Ghomeshi

Roqe Media

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Media Chair

Shadi Fall

Sivers Semiconductors 

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IAP Impact Lead

Arash Esmaili Zaghi

University of Connecticut

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Student Liaison & Publicity Co-Chair

Deniz Najafi

New Jersey Institute of Technology

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Academic Lead

Mahsa Ranji

Florida Atlantic University

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Publicity Co-Chair

Taha Mokfi

Confyde AI

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Marketing Chair

Rana Pourmohamad

Amazon

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Entrepreneur Lead

Shahab Ardalan

AMD

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 Publicity Co-Chair

Nader Sehatbakhsh

University of California Los Angeles

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Speaker & Pioneer Relations Chair

Parsa Mirfasihi

University of Arizona

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